Temporary safe



y 15, 51934- P. s. MILLICE- TEMPORARY SAFE Original Filed Oct. 19

Patented May 15, 1934 TEMPORARY SAFE Paul S. Millice, Hamilton, Ohio, assignor to Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Original application October 19, 1932, Serial No. 638,485. Divided and this application August 2, 1933, Serial No. 683,347

6 Claims.

My invention relates to temporary safes, employable in stores, theatres, filling stations and other places in which it is desired to have safety for money, securities, stamps, tickets, coupon books, and the like, between times of deposit of the money in the bank, during the night, or during the absence of attendants.

My present application is a division of my 00- pending application for patent on improvement in temporary safes, Serial No. 638,485, filed October 19, 1932, hereinafter referred to as the original application.

The original application is directed to the body of the safe, its compartments, its closures, and its locking means, and contains claims directed to these subject matters, and these subject matters are therefore not herein independently claimed. This divisional application relates to means for securing a temporary safe body in place, and its claims-are directed to this latter feature in connection with the safe structure, the safe structure being shown and described insofar as the same is deemed necessary.

It is the object of my invention to provide novel means for securing a temporary safe in placej and, further, to provide novel means for securing a temporary safe against removal while permitting localized movement of thesame; and my invention consists in novel means for accomplishing these objects.

My invention consists further in the novel parts, and in the novel construction, arrangement and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

stood from the followingdescription and claims, and from the drawing, in which latter:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved device, showing the foundation in vertical axial section.

Fig. 2 is a vertical axial section of my improved temporary safe, exemplifying its connection with the foundation, and partly broken away.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of my improved devic with the outer closure removed.

Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the outer closure.

Fig. 5 is a vertical section, taken in the plane of the line 55 of Fig. 3, showing the locking means for the outer closure, viewed from the inside of the device, and partly broken away;

Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the same, taken on the line 66 of Fig. 5; and

Fig. 7 is a horizontal section of my improved device, taken in the plane of the line 7-7 of Fig. 2, partly broken away, and with the inner plate 5 removed.

The invention will be further readily under The temporary safe exemplified is the same as that shown, described and claimed in my aforesaid original application. It comprises a body- 11, which is preferably round in cross-section. The body exemplified has an inner compartment 12 and an outer compartment 13.

The upper end of the body is provided with an inwardly extending annular flange 14, forming an opening 15, for an inner closure 16, which is provided with a handle 17.

The inner closure'is provided with a multicontrol locking means, exemplified as a lock 21, which is secured to the inner face of the inner closure 16. The lock is provided with a locking bolt 22, arranged to be moved under the wall of the opening 15.

The lock is exemplified as a key lock, provided with key barrels 23, 24, for receiving keys having different locking effects upon the bolt, so that it requires both keys to open the lock, and the lock is preferably so constructed that neither key can be withdrawn from the look while the bolt is in unlocking relation, as more fully'shown and described in said original application.

One of the keys may be retained by the attendant of the store or station, and the other by a visting auditor or checker. The operation of the look by both keys is necessary to unlock the closure 16 for access to the inner compartment 12 there under for withdrawal of the money or securities in this compartment. I l

The annular flange 14 is provided with a slot 25, through which money or securities may be passed into the compartment 12 during closed and locked relation of the closure 16. The money and securities cannot be withdrawn from the inner compartment through the slot, and must remain in the compartment until both keys are manipulated to unlock the closure 16.

The closure end of the body is provided with a comparatively deep cavity 26, at the bottom'of which the closure is located, the cavity being partially formed by an outwardly extending annular flange 2'7. 1 Y

An outer closure28 is provided, and has an inner cavity 29. The cavities 26, 29 form the outer compartment 13.

The locking lugs are arranged to pass through the spaces by movement of the outer closure in axial direction, and the locking lugs 36 on the outer closure are arranged to pass under the locking lugs 31 on the body on rotation of the outer closure. There is an annular seat 38 between the margin of the outer closure and the body, part of which is slanting for centering the closure upon the body.

The outer closure is rotatable in the direction of the arrow a (Fig. 3), when rotating the closure into locking position. Such rotation in looking direction is limited by a pin 41 fixed to one of the lugs 31, and extending into the slot 42 under the lugs 31.

A bolt 43 is arranged to be moved into the path of one of the lugs on the outer closure when the latter is in fully rotated closed position. The flange 14 is provided with an upwardly extending pin 44, to arrest rotation of the outer closure in the opposite direction when the closure is on the body and the locking lugs on the closure are in alignment with the spaces between the locking lugs on the body.

A lock 45 is provided for actuating the bolt 43 in suitable manner, and has suitable connection with the bolt for being actuated by a key inserted in a key barrel 46 of said lock.

The outer closure may be provided with a handle 47.

The temporary safe is firmly anchored to a foundation by substantial means. The body of the safe has a bottom 51 from which an apron 52 extends downwardly, forming a downwardly opening recess 53. The lower portion of the apron is tapered downwardly and inwardly, as at 54. The body is preferably made of tool-resistant steel.

A tube 55, which is preferably also of toolresistant steel and of great tensile strength, has its upper end received in the recess 53. The tube and the apron and its recess are preferably round.

1 The greater portion of the tube or stub is preferably imbedded and firmly fixed in a rigid foundation 58, as of poured reinforced concrete. This foundation may be part of the foundation of the building, or other massive foundation not readily moved or shattered during the time that a felonious action is likely to take place. The'top 59 of the foundation may be the floor of the room in which the temporary safe is located.

A rod 61 is a non-rotatably' fixed in the foundation, as by having its lower end provided with a bent portion 62 imbedded in the concrete. The main portion of the rod is inside the tube 55. The upper end of the rod is threaded, and has a washer 63 and a nut 64 thereabout, the rod extending through a hole 65 in the bottom 51. The hole is preferably unthreaded.

The upper end of the rod and the nut are located in a recess 66 in said bottom. A plate 67 covers the recess, its margin being received in an annular rabbet 68 in the side walls of the recess. The plate is exemplified as forming a part of the bottom of the compartment 12 in the body 11.

The nut 64 is preferably a castellated nut, a pin 69, shown as a cotter pin, being received in opposite slots of the castellation and in a hole in the upper end of the rod for preventing turning of the nut with relation to the rod. The pin may be received in any of the slots of the castellations, of which are preferably quite a number, as shown in the drawing, so that delicate adjustment of the nut may be made and maintained, for proper secured relation of the body to the foundation.

The body 11 is secured in place by passing its annular flange or apron 52 about the upper end of the tube and passing the bottom 51 about the upper end of the threaded rod 61, after the tube and rod have been firmly imbedded in the concrete foundation.

The washer 63 and nut 64 are received through the compartment 12 about the upper threaded end of the rod, and the nut is screwed tightly about said threaded end for clamping the body 11 upon the upper end of the tube 55, whereupon the pin 69 is inserted to prevent rotation of the nut with relation to the rod. The cover plate 6'7 is then put in place.

The tube, body, rod and nut connection are resistant to blows, but if an attempt be made to twist the body off the tube, as by means of a large wrench about the body, the result is merely to cause turning of the body upon the tube and rod without detrimentally affecting the connections of the body with the tube and the foundation, and producing no harm.

In my improved device the temporary safe is firmly anchored to its foundation by substantial means, with the lower flange of the body of the device reaching substantially to the top of the foundation or the floor line about the tube and bolt, securely holding the body to the foundation or floor in such manner as to prevent separation of the body and its removal from its location. The body is rotatable upon its securing means if force should be supplied to twist the body, without detriment to the attachment of the body to the foundation, or disarrangement of the securing means inside the body securing the body to the foundation.

My improved device is simple in construction, economical in manufacture, and provides for safety of the contents of the body, and against removal or dislodgment of the body.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a temporary safe, the combination of a safe body, a foundation, a stub anchored in said foundation, the lower end of said body and the upper end of said stub having rotative telescoping connection between them, and holding means between said body and said stub holding said body in axial direction to said stub whilst permitting rotation between said body and said stub.

2. In a temporary safe, the combination of a safe body, a foundation, a tube anchored in said foundation, the lower end of said body and the upper end of said tube having rotative telescoping connection between them, a rod in said tube imbedded in said foundation, a part in said safe having tension connection with said rod and arranged to clamp said body to said tube in axial direction whilst permitting rotation between said body and said tube, and means for locking said part and said rod against relative rotation while permitting rotation of said body at said telescoping connection.

3. In a temporary safe, the combination of a foundation, a tube anchored in said foundation, a safe body having an annular apron extending downwardly about the upper end of said tube into adjacency with the upper end of said foundation and rotatable about said tube, a rod in said tube imbedded in said foundation, a part in said body having threaded connection with 'Zil said rod to clamp said body to said tube in axial direction, and locking means between said part and said rod to hold said part non-rotative to said rod, and constructed and arranged. to permit rotation between said body and said tube while holding said body to said tube in axial direction.

4. In a temporary safe, the combination of a safe body having a bottom and a downwardly extending annular apron extending below said bottom, and having an annular recess therein under said bottom, a foundation, a tube imbedded in said foundation and having an upwardly projecting end extending above said foundation, the upper end of said tube received within said annular apron and extending into said annular recess, said bottom of said body provided with a hole, and tension clamping means in said hole comprising a pair of parts, one of which is held to said foundation and the other of which has connection with said body for clamping said body to said foundation with capacity of said body to rotate about said tube.

5. In a temporary safe, the combination of a safe body having a bottom and a downwardly extending annular apron extending below said bottom, and having an annular recess therein under said bottom, a foundation, a tube and a rod in said tube, said tube and said rodimbedded in said foundation and having upwardly projecting ends extending above said foundation, the upper end of said tube received within said annular apron and extending into said annular recess, said bottom of said body provided with a hole, the upper end of said rod received through said hole, and. means secured to the upper end of said rod holding said body to said tube in axial direction, with said body rotatable about said tube.

6. In a temporary safe, the combination of a safe body having a bottom and a downwardly extending annular apron extending below said bottom, and having an annular recess therein under said bottom, a foundation, a tube and a rod in said tube, said tube and said rod imbedded in said foundation and having upwardly projecting ends extending above said foundation, the upper end of said tube received within said annular apron and extending into said annular recess, said bottom of said body provided with a hole, the upper end of said rod received through said hole, a nut received about the upper end of said rod for clamping said body to said tube in axial direction, with said body rotatable about said tube, and locking means locking said nut and said rod against relative rotation.

PAUL S. MILLICE. 

